Religion and reductionism :   essays on Eliade, Segal, and the challenge of the social sciences for the study of religion / 
edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan 
 - Leiden ; Boston :   E. J. Brill,   1994 
 - viii, 236 p.  ;  25 cm. 
 - Studies in the history and culture of the ancient Near East,  62 .
<br/><br/>Reductionism in the study of religion / Robert A. Segal -- Are religious theories susceptible to reduction? / Thomas Ryba -- Clarifying the strengths and limits of reductionism in the discipline of religion / Edward A. Yonan -- The instability of religious belief : some reductionistic and eliminative pressures / Terry F. Godlove, Jr. -- Must professors of religion be religious? : on Eliade's method of inquiry and Segal's defense of reductionism / Thomas A. Idinopulos -- Mircea Eliade and the battle against reductionism / Wayne Elzey -- Reduction without tears / Ivan Strenski -- Beyond the sceptic and the devotee : reductionism in the scientific study of religion / Donald Wiebe -- What is reductionism? / Arvind Sharma -- Human reflexivity and the nonreductive explanation of religious action / Lorne Dawson -- Religion, explanation, and the askesis of inquiry / Tony Edwards. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>97890040987019004098704 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.Segal, Robert Alan.Religion--Study and teaching.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL41   / .R363 1994